Bible Cross References
Rama
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus says Jehovah: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
Ramah
Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as of one bearing her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, gasping and spreading her hands, saying, Woe to me now! For my soul is weary because of murderers.
Jeremiah 9:17-21
17
Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Consider carefully, and call for those who lament, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;
18
and let them make haste and take up a lamentation for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.
19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion. How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because they have thrown down our tents.
20
Yet hear the Word of Jehovah, O women, and let your ear receive the Word of His mouth, and teach your daughters a mourning song, and each one teach her neighbor a lamentation.
21
For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.
Ezekiel 2:10
And He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.
Revelation 8:13
And I saw, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!
Rachel
Genesis 35:16-20
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And they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was still some ground to cover to arrive at Ephrath, Rachel was giving birth, and she had hard labor.
17
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Do not fear; you shall have this son also.
18
And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
19
And Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (which is Bethlehem).
20
And Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
would
Genesis 37:30
And he returned to his brothers and said, The lad is no more; and I, where shall I go?
Genesis 37:33-35
33
And he recognized it and said, It is my son's tunic. An evil beast has devoured him. Joseph has been rent and torn to pieces.
34
And Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35
And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, I will go down into Sheol mourning for my son. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me: Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and you would take Benjamin. All these things are against me.
Job 14:10
But a strong man dies and is laid away; indeed man expires and where is he?